Questions tagged [investing]

I am reading Ken Fisher's Beat the Crowd, and the second sentence in the book is this: In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right. I was wondering if there is a way to define the terms in this statement, "in investing", "crowd"…

Is there a name for a fund or investment where many people all split the cost of the investment. For example with peer to peer lending many investors can loan 50 dollars or more to a 40,000 dollar loan request and each investor will receive a…

There are two methods. Only the numerator the average realized return will be rolling (10 years) while the downside deviation is calculated from full time period. Both numerator and denominator are rolling. Which one would be correct?

I've been wanting to learn about investing but don't know where to start. I want to learn everything from stocks, mutual funds and bonds, CDs, and everything else, and would just like to know where I could start learning about all this.